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Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:47 pm
by Sionnach Glic
They could have been used prior to the Kelvin.
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:28 pm
by Tyyr
I think his point was that they were still in use on the Enterprise herself in the original pilot for TOS.
Personally I'm well over the lasers thing. They were in the pilot, a reference in TNG, they're not exactly a bedrock of the franchise.
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:44 pm
by Lt. Staplic
Still it would have been nice for Abrams to put TNG/TOS canon into the movie as oppossed to ENT.
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:46 pm
by Tyyr
Honestly, I like it this way. I like it a lot more than pretending that for the next 250 years the best we'll be able to do is lasers.
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:11 pm
by Lt. Staplic
lasers have some temendous potential, plus I don't mind that it took us 250 years to discover and perfect the rapid nadion effect considering we don't even know what a nadion is at this point in time.
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:12 am
by Mark
Well, lasers were also referred to in The Menagerie. I can accept The Cage as not being considered cannon.......but it was backed up.
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:40 am
by Graham Kennedy
FYI, the Kelvin has been added to the Federation ships list
here.
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:21 pm
by Tsukiyumi
GrahamKennedy wrote:FYI, the Kelvin has been added to the Federation ships list
here.
Sweet. What class are you going to call the new Enterprise?
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:34 pm
by Graham Kennedy
Hmmm, good question. I suppose going by site policy it should be the Enterprise class.
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:43 pm
by Teaos
I dont like the sound of that. Its kind of confusing. How about name it after its first captain, the Pike class?
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:53 pm
by Graham Kennedy
We don't make up arbitrary class names unless we absolutely have to. The rule has always been that we go with an official class name if there is one (wherever it comes from), and if not we go with the name of the first ship of the type seen. Only if there's no official name and no individual ships named do we make one up (the Frankenstein ships for example).
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:05 pm
by IanKennedy
I would go with the Constitution as we know that's what it's an alternate version of. Startrekmovie.com calls it a Constitution class heavy cruiser, which I think we should treat as a backstage source.
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:07 pm
by Graham Kennedy
They do? Cool, definitely go with that then.
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:45 pm
by IanKennedy
Yup. Go into the dossiers section and select the Enterprise, on the first page is some text giving it's class, top speed ( Warp 8 ) etc.
Re: Info on the USS Kelvin
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:15 pm
by Monroe
You could call it the
Magna Carta... alternate version of the Constitution... get it?
I do like Enterprise Heavy Cruiser. As opposed to Enterprise Cruiser?